Adrien de MONLUC, comte de Cramail. - Lot 195

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Adrien de MONLUC, comte de Cramail. - Lot 195
Adrien de MONLUC, comte de Cramail. The skinny one. Lighting and page layout by Iliazd. Illustrated with dry tips by Pablo Picasso. Paris, Le Degré Quarante et un, 1952. In-folio, in sheets, under double cover of natural Japanese paper with printed title and filled parchment bearing, on the first plate, an engraving by Picasso: filled white parchment wallet. Unique edition of 74 copies signed by the publisher and the painter : 60 copies on china and 14 copies on japanese. The justification printed in red "Legal Deposit I" was crossed out in pencil by Iliazd who added: "Trial copy." The copy is printed on china, except for a double page on japan (pp. 13-14). 10 original drypoints by Picasso, one of which is on the parchment cover. The nine engravings in the text are two-topic and double-page spread, either with a banner at the bottom or two-thirds of the page at the top. "It was a discovery in a bookstore that led to this remarkable book," says Goeppert. Iliazd, in fact, is enthusiastic about the work attributed to the poet, novelist and playwright, Adrien de Monluc, Count of Cramail (1571-1646), who remained a prisoner at the Bastille for twelve years. Fascinated by the Gascon gentleman, the poet-publisher unearthed two of his texts: The Grotesque Courtesan (illustrated by Miró much later, in 1974) and The Lean, praising in the preface this "Avant-coureur des lettres modernes, the first who sought to liberate words and marked the pages with an ink that three centuries had failed to dry". The succulent pages, sometimes to the point of obscenity, of La Maigre are dedicated to À très-déliée, très-menue, & très maigre Damoiselle. Confronted with her thorny anatomy, the poet apostropheed her and mocked her virtue: "Do not so often loathe yourself, of being chaste, swearing that no one has ever done the work of the flesh with you. Those who see you will believe it quite easily, since, having ny flesh, ny muscles, one can only commit with you the sin of the bones.
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